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Kate Davidson

Kate is a writer who specialises in works that are bold and
fantastical, with an emphasis on themes of moral dilemma,
coming-of-age, families and friendship.

Born in Dundee and raised in St Andrews, Kate joined the Byre
Theatre Playwriting Group in her teens. At the age of 15, her short
play about buddhist monks, The Bee, was performed at the
Byre Theatre and Perth Rep Studios. The Bee then won the
Scottish Young Playwrights' Festival and was performed at the Old
Athaneum together with two other shorts she also wrote.

After school, Kate went to Trinity College Dublin where she
gained a First Class BA in Drama and Theatre Studies. During her
studies, she was granted a one-year scholarship to the University
of California where she took screenwriting classes but primarily
specialised in directing. Upon graduation, Kate spent a further
year at L'Ecole Jacques LeCoq in Paris and then founded her own
small devised theatre company, Eye of the Storm, in Edinburgh. Her
show Love: Unrequited was performed at the 2001 fringe to
solid four-star reviews.

In 2002, Kate took a short break from theatre to help found
Glasgow's The Bridges Programmes, a charity that helps refugees get
work. The charity is still going strong today and is an EU Example
of Best Practice in the field of refugee integration.

In 2005, Kate moved to London to undertake an MA in
Scriptwriting at City University. During this period, her play
Alma Pater - about fishing communities in the North-East
of Scotland - was performed at the Pleasance Theatre, and her short
film Long Live the King - about an NHS drugs
rehabilitation programme - was produced by Arts Ed.

Kate was lucky enough to win the 'Write' competition by the
Almeida theatre shortly after graduating. Her
play, Hanging on by a Thread, about an Irish circus
family was performed on the Almeida's main stage over two nights.
In 2010, Kate moved back to Scotland and continued writing,
completing two further feature-length screenplays.

In 2011, Kate joined the television programme Hollyoaks
and quickly became a member of the core writing team. Over 2011 and
2012, she wrote ten episodes of Hollyoaks' main show,
including the Boxing Day 2011 special bubble episode. She also
wrote video content for the C4 Education online project
DocYou. This innovative digital drama aimed to raise
awareness about bullying by recreating a social networking site for
young Hollyoaks characters. The project gained over a
million web hits and was given an RTS North award for Digital
Innovation.

In 2013-14, Kate also collaborated with Sweden's SVT to create a
new online youth series, Making It, which centres around
four girls studying at Central Saint Martins. She has written four
episodes of the first series.

Kate's play, Ostrich, was chosen by the Writers' Guild
for their Playwrights' Progress Scheme and given a reading at the
Leicester Square Theatre in May 2014. She has also been completing
a portfolio of three new pieces as part of her Creative Scotland
Artists' Bursary.